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File 4045/1913 'Pt 1 Trans-Persian Railway' [181r] (205/349)
The record is made up of 1 item (173 folios). It was created in 1913-1914. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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wishing to include in the application to
the Persian Government a request that free
access to ports should be fully guaranteed
to the railway company.
3, 'They concurred in the wish of the
Societe d'Etudes that a representative of
the French Government should be included in
the commission of investigation in the south,
and, if such an arrangement should prove
impracticable, the Pussian Government con
sidered that the Pussian and French delegates
on the commission might be representatives
of the Societe d’Etudes who, in such a con
tingency, would meet the expenditure invol
ved.
J N His Majesty*s Government have, in con
sultation with the Government of India,
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Correspondence and memoranda regarding the Société Internationale d'Études du Chemin de Fer Transpersan's proposed bid for an option to construct a railway in Persia.
The volume contains communications received from the French and Russian Ambassadors to the UK, the British Ambassador to Russia, and the French, Russian and English representatives of the Société d'Études. It also contains internal communications between the Viceroy of India, the Foreign Office, the War Office, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , and HM Legation in Teheran [Tehran].
Topics discussed:
- whether to present the option request through the Société d'Études, or through the representatives to Teheran;
- whether France should play a formal role in negotiations;
- the establishment of an Anglo-Russian Commission to study the proposed alignment of track;
- granting concessions to third parties for port and terminal facilities in the south of Persia;
- potential alignment (routes) of the track: Ispahan -- Shiraz -- Bundar Abbas; Kerman -- Chahbar; Yezd -- Bundar Abbas [Eşfahān -- Shīrāz -- Bandar-e 'Abbās; Kermān -- Chābahār; Yazd -- Bandar-e 'Abbās];
- Anglo-Russian relations;
- the potential impact on the military defence of India, should Russia have rail access to any point to the east of Bundar Abbas;
- the application for a mining concession by the Persian Mining Syndicate.
The file also contains a copy of the Convention signed on August 31, 1907, between Great Britain and Russia, containing Arrangements on the subject of Persia, Afghanistan, and Thibet (ff 190-95).
- Extent and format
- 1 item (173 folios)
- Arrangement
Papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. Folio 79 is a collection header sheet, giving the subject heading and a list of correspondence references found within the volume part.
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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/10/416/1
- Title
- File 4045/1913 'Pt 1 Trans-Persian Railway'
- Pages
- 79r:92v, 95r:99v, 101r:103r, 104r:117v, 119r:178v, 180r:212v, 214r:233v, 244r:252v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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